Having a medical home – a trusted, reliable source of continuing health care – can ease the process for people leaving jail so that they’re less likely to return.
—Dick Bohrer COCHS Advisory Committee Member
Departments of corrections and health providers from the community should join together in the common project of delivering high quality health care that protects prisoners and the public.
—Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety
and Abuse in America’s Prisons
By collaborating with community health centers, jails can be part of the solution to improving both public safety and public health.